Garbage-crematory.



G. A. RAGGIO. GARBAGE OREMATORY. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7,

Patented Feb. 7, 191 1.

i f i If m ll 1" f E EZETJJ CHARLES A. RAGGIO, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR RAGGIO, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

OF ONE-HALF T0 LOUIS G.

To all whom it may concern' Be it known that I, CHARLES A. RAoo1o, .a citizen of the United States, residing 1 n Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Fig. 3 shows Fig. 1 on thesection planes 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Like reference letters denote like parts throughout.

The object of my invention is to produce a device for disposing of rubbish, which means such things as paper, rags, berry and fruit-boxes, and like material of fuel-like nature, and garbage, which means fruit,

meat, and vegetable offal from the kitchen,-

and'the like, things which are not of a nature which can form fuel, and, finally, ashes, both from stoves and furnaces and from a garbage crematory, all of which, said materials are so arranged as to make their final removal by scavenger wagons easy in the side from any stage of their condition, my said device being adapted to be used in parts, or as a whole,'each part performing a function in connection with either one or both of the others as will appear from the full specification.

Fig. 1 of the drawing shows the rear side of my device, which is that side which faces out of the back yard, or into the alley, and is which the garbage collector Works in loading his wagon from it, or shifts the contents from one to the other of the three chambers.

Two ways for the use of my device are necessitated by the sanitary rules in force in many cities, they prohibiting the mixture of ashes with either rubbish or garbage, as herein defined.

My said complete device consists of three distinct parts, 1, 2, 3, of which one half of part 1 covers part 2. and the other half part Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed December 7, 1908.

Patented Feb. 7, 1911. Serial No. 466,302.

3, the partition wall 0 forming the separate chambers 2 and 3, being midway between the ends of the part 1. Inclined doors or lids d and e at the ends of the parts 2 and 3, re spectively, open to receive ashes at d and garbage at c. The upper part 1 has doors 7 and g the latter, or upper one, receives the garbage which is dropped on the inclined door held by chains 9 so as to form a chute into the interior of the cremating chamber b and the rubbish is dropped on the door f which forms a chute into the furnace chamber 2' which is provided with .a

' solid bottom j which has two faces j which are inclined and terminate in a central concaved and longitudinally inclined trough 7i: inclining from its rear to its front end where it terminates in a hole Z into which the ashes are raked from said trough. Said hole is opened and closed by a slide Z, the ashes drop from said hole into the chamber 2. Draft for the fire to burn the rubbish in the chamber 2' is supplied through the holes m. Obviously, however, the heat of combustion in the garbage crematory may be sufficient 'to cause a draft of air to flow up from the ash receptacle to carry off any foul odors therefrom. The connection between the parts it and z' is shouldered at the joint h and immediately under it is a grate n which receives the garbage through the; opening for the door 9, and said grate and the bottom 7' are removable. K

The crematory furnace h is pyramidal and on its truncated top is mounted a pipe 0 which, by means of the shouldered joint 0' is removable, so that the openiug'it closes may also be used for charging the crematory.

The surface of the bottom of the receptacle 3 is inclined slightly toward the receptacle 2, as indicated from p, the upper end in the receptacle 3, to the drain-holes 32 through which the liquids in the garbage drain onto the ashes in the receptacle 2 where chamber 2 and from thence are 3 because they are seen through the wall 0 and they represent the upper and lower transverse end lines of the floor of chamber 8 and in said latter'figure is also shown another inclination of said face, namely; from the door side downward to the opposite wall. The latter inclination is for the purpose of getting the materal together more easily for the shovel while the former is for draining the garbage of its moisture through the holes 29 into the ashpit or chamber 2.

The surface of the bottom r of receptacle 2 is inclined from the door a at q, to the opposite wall at q where the material, ashes, is then more easily collected and is held for the shovel.

The furnace or element 1 sets removably on the parts 2, 3, and may be taken down from them and then used to burn both garbage and rubbish, but with the disadvantage, thereby, that there is no place to either receive or to moisten the ashes as can be done with the complete machine.

The foul gases generated in the garbage chamber 3 are drawn out through a hole 0' near the top of the partition 0 into the joined with the foul gases which may arise in chamber 2 which then, together, pass through the hole Z and chambers i and h and chimney 0 where, in said parts i, h, 0, they are either deodori ied, consumed, or carried into the upper atmosphere without disturbing the otherwise sanitary conditions of the locality. Air

' holes for draft for said ventilation are made in the doors, as shown at a and Z), or at other convenient places so that the device may be kept in a thoroughly sanitary condition.

\Vhat I claim is: 1. In combination with garbage and ash receptacles, a rubbish furnace on said receptacles, said rubbish furnac e provided with a floor having therein a draft opening and means for air draft above said floor, the rubbish furnace being in communication with the ash receptacle through the aforementioned draft opening whereby a draft will be created by the rubbish furnace ash receptacle,

through said draft opening to carry off foul odors from the ash receptacle, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, a garbage receptacle and an ash receptacle and a rubbish furnace superimposed on said receptacles, said rubbish furnace provided with a floor which has oppositely inclined surfaces and a connection from said floor to the 'ash receptacle, said rubbish furnace being in communication with said ash receptacle through said connection, substantially as described.

3. In a device of the class described, an

a rubbish furnace superimposed on the ash receptacle, and a garbage crematory superimposed on the rubbish furnace whereby the heat of the rubbish furnace may cremate garbage in the garbage erematory above, the rubbish furnace being provided with a floor which has oppositely inclined surfaces and also means of communieation t0 the ash receptacle whereby ashes and debris may pass from the garbage furnace to the ash receptacle through said means of communication, substantially as described.

t. In a device of the class described, an ash receptacle, a garbage receptacle and a rubbish furnace, the ash and garbage receptacles being laterally adjacent each other and the rubbish furnace being superimposed upon them,- a floor for the rubbish furnace having therein an ash and draft opening in communication with the ash receptacle and means for air draft from the garbage receptacle to the ash receptacle whereby foul odors from the garbage receptacle may pass to the ash receptacle and may thence pass through the aforesaid ash and draft opening to the rubbish furnace, substantially as described.

CHARLES A. RAGGIO.

Witnesses:

JOHN DALE, H. LEE. 

